M.A. (Library Science) / Children's literature transmits values regarded as important by society and is an important means of socialisation. It will tend to reflect those· values regarded as important and fundamental to the dominant social class. Alternative values and the questioning of traditional values only takes place in children's literature when society in general begins to question its values. Reading is a transactional process. Meaning is not "contained in the text" but the result of interaction between the reader and the text. The reader's cultural background and attitudes will play an important role in determining how a text will be understood. Children from diverse backgrounds will not necessarily understand a text in the same way, as they bring their background to the text and understand it or interpret it in the light of that background or schema. Values are the foundation on which people base their actions, beliefs and attitudes. Each culture develops its own value system in terms of which values will be ranked in order of importance. Through socialisation these value systems will be passed on to new generations...

Orientadores: Joice Melo Vieira, Roberta Guimarães Peres / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-27T13:58:38Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Baptiste_ChandelineJean_M.pdf: 1426107 bytes, checksum: d3c3f40ae07497754c3bbbc1c57af6cd (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015 / Resumo: A transição para a vida adulta é um momento importante para se entender o curso de vida dos indivíduos. Atualmente independentemente do nível de desenvolvimento da sociedade, esse processo de transição vem passando por várias mudanças. No que diz respeito à juventude e à transição para a vida adulta, a migração pode, por um lado, ser incorporada como uma das opções desejáveis e possíveis para se tornar adulto. Por outro lado, também pode levar ao adiamento de certos eventos na vida do sujeito. O principal objetivo deste trabalho é analisar a transição para a vida adulta dos jovens migrantes haitianos que vieram para o Brasil após o terremoto de janeiro 2010, e se encontravam na cidade de São Paulo no momento da entrevista. Busca-se entender se a migração desempenha ou não um papel no processo de transição deles. Para realizar essa investigação, opta-se pela metodologia qualitativa. Foram realizadas 20 entrevistas semiestruturadas. Essa técnica permite explorar a trajetória de vida retrospectiva dos jovens e possíveis conexões entre o processo migratório e a transição para a vida adulta / Abstract: The transition to adulthood is very important moment for understanding the individual life course. In fact, regardless of the development level of society, this process is suffering many different changes. With respect to youth and the transitional process, migration can be both: a way to achieve adulthood and to postpone some events in individual trajectory. The main aim of this work is to analyze that transitory period in the lives of young Haitian migrants who arrived in Brazil after the 2010 earthquake, especially in the city of São Paulo. The research tries to understand the relation between international migration and transition to adulthood. The method used was qualitative. It was realized twenty semi-structured interview for to reconstruct the retrospective trajectory of the young migrants / Mestrado / Demografia / Mestra em Demografia

The purpose of this study was to identify socio-psychological differences in youths who may be at risk to joining gangs.

It is critical that low socioeconomic families promote the value and worth of reading as a tool for lifelong learning. The significance of this study is to determine the relationship between reading ability and the value placed on reading by at-risk students.

Community-oriented policing implementation has been examined under the context of large agencies whereas the literature on smaller agencies has ultimately been lagging behind The purpose of this study is therefore to examine the degree of community policing implementation within these smaller agencies, controlling for characteristics derived from the theory of social disorganization, to gather further insight into what variables may be impacting crimes rates Pearson correlation and OLS regression analysis is employed to obtain the necessary results The findings indicate that although community-policing implementation does not significantly impact or explain the variation of crime rates in small cities, the statistically significant results of particular social disorganization characteristics should be an indicator of the need to incorporate theory with practice / Includes bibliography / Thesis (MS)--Florida Atlantic University, 2016 / FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection

This dissertation explores the path of Tibet’s economic integration with China in the first half of the twentieth century. It particularly examines the borderland region of Kham that encompasses parts of present-day Sichuan, Qinghai, and Yunnan. Drawing on borderland histories and bringing together Tibetan and Chinese archival sources, it focuses on indigenous institutions and local economic practices in order to demonstrate that the twentieth-century Sino-Tibetan integration was mediated primarily by Tibetan economic institutions and actors. While previous scholarship has examined the history of Kham in relation to Chinese state-building practices, this dissertation acknowledges the equally important place of Tibetan state-building practices and their impact on the region. As a borderland, Kham was caught between two modernizing states with conflicting agendas. Understanding its economic history, I argue, requires a direct engagement with the Tibetan financial and monetary structures, taxation practices, and labor regimes that not only dominated life Kham but also conditioned the development of the Chinese state itself in the frontiers. Chinese officials frequently collided, clashed, and collaborated with local Tibetan leaders, while Chinese merchants and companies engaged in trade and partnered with and worked alongside Tibetan merchant companies, whose economic reach extended from Shanghai to Calcutta. This dissertation focuses on four main institutions to rethink this history on the Chinese borderlands by focusing on the indigenous Tibetan institutions and structures: ulak conscript labor, currency, monasteries, and merchant companies. All four of these institutions were rooted in Tibetan socio-economic practices and were critical in the transformation of Tibetan society in the Sino-Tibetan borderland. The economic interconnectedness of the twentieth century and the increased links between Tibet and China brought a simultaneous and seemingly contradictory economic trajectory to Tibet. As the Chinese presence on the plateau increased, so did the power of Tibetan economic institutions, for the Chinese government, military, and merchants had to rely on them to exist. In a politically and economically fragmented environment, Tibetan institutions challenged state building efforts and thrived by asserting their own political, religious, and economic power across the Tibetan Plateau and beyond. A history of Tibetan economy as seen and written through the eyes of the Tibetans offers a new perspective to not only rethink modern Chinese history, but also the present day in which the Tibetan institutions still continue to mediate social and economic life on the fringes of the People’s Republic of China.

A research report submitted to the Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, Uni- versity of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in partial fullfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Engineering. Johannesburg, May 2018 / With the expected disruption of industry 4.0 and the current challenges that SMEs face in South Africa, there is an increasing threat that SMEs will lose any competitive advantage they currently have. This exploratory study investigates how South African manufacturing SMEs can remain competitive during the fourth industrial revolution. Data, in the form of current literature, was analysed using thematic content analysis. From the analysis process, 8 emergent themes were used to organise the results of the study. Notable findings towards generating competitive advantage included: The location of SMEs within clusters, collaboration with disruption leaders, the sharing of outcomes across the value chain, the shift of business models towards a service and software orientation, the use of data driven insights to find and capture high margin markets and the increased effectiveness of labour through technology use. The study also found that the use of the IoT and cloud computing can significantly reduce infrastructure requirements and promote a competitive advantage. / MT 2018

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